Wall Street to Open
Despite Transit Strike

NEW YORK &ndash; Financial markets here plan to open for business at normal hours today despite the possibility of a strike by New York City transit workers.

The New York Stock Exchange said that essential employees will be riding in on chartered buses to the exchange's lower Manhattan headquarters in case of a strike. The buses are being provided by the Securities Industry Association to the exchange and more than a dozen other Wall Street firms and banks. Traders and brokers that work on the NYSE floor say they are...